From b1ecd19c5d19815b69e425d80f442bf2877cab76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2021 11:37:54 +0000
Subject: Fix 'delete room' admin api to work on incomplete rooms (#11523)

If, for some reason, we don't have the create event, we should still be able to
purge a room.
---
 synapse/rest/admin/rooms.py | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'synapse/rest')

diff --git a/synapse/rest/admin/rooms.py b/synapse/rest/admin/rooms.py
index 669ab44a45..829e86675a 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/admin/rooms.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/admin/rooms.py
@@ -106,9 +106,6 @@ class RoomRestV2Servlet(RestServlet):
                 HTTPStatus.BAD_REQUEST, "%s is not a legal room ID" % (room_id,)
             )
 
-        if not await self._store.get_room(room_id):
-            raise NotFoundError("Unknown room id %s" % (room_id,))
-
         delete_id = self._pagination_handler.start_shutdown_and_purge_room(
             room_id=room_id,
             new_room_user_id=content.get("new_room_user_id"),
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